Tuesday, December 29, 2009

The Whole Truth

Over on Twitter, a few of my smackdown peeps have been talking about a UFO smackdown. I thought, well, sure, but I only have 4 WIPs on my ravelry project page. I'm doing pretty well. Oh, how quickly one forgets.

These are all the ones in my drawers. Forgotten. Not added to ravelry (so in a way, they didn't exist). Time to get real.

The February Lady Sweater I cast on right before Stitches West in February. I didn't like my button hole and so I stopped there.

This was my original test knit of the Courage sock pattern. In the gorgeous Oregon Red Honey Clover colorway of STR.

There is another design in progress hiding in one of those project bags, but I can't show you that.

Now the next two. Well, I just started them, but they weren't added to my project page. So, again, the whole truth.

A sport weight version of the Merrily pattern :) (or maybe Merrily Merrily). In Mama Blue. Swoooooooooon. This one will be done soon.

Another Koolhaas for Snowboarder's brother-in-law. Snowboarder was bragging and asked me to make him one. Ugh. But note the pretty project bags from Piddleloop (they were my Christmas pressie to me!).

Well, this was just beginning to be a Goody Goody sock, but let's get real. I haven't touched it since 2008.

It now looks like this. I'm sure I'll get around to it, but why have it filling up a cute project bag (this one from Zknitter!) and needles!

Now this next UFO. Well, its probably my favorite. I haven't touched it in a long time. My Tickled Pink Blanket that Rocks!

I'm hoping the fabulous new Signature Circular Needles will help me finish this baby up!

ETA: Crap. Found one more. This one. Tuscany shawl. It was on my ravelry project page doing this zzzzzzzz hehehe. Hmmm. I can't bear to frog this, but don't see it being worked on soon. I guess this is where the UFO smackdown comes in.

"How many do you have??"--oh, you did NOT ask that?! Shamefully way more than you have! So many I can't count them all! Right now I have three lined up for immediate UFO Smackdown progress, but many more to move on. I have to break it down into small increments or I'll lose focus and not get any done. Must say I love the look of those Signtaure needles, too!

This is a timely post for me - I just frogged a long-suffering BSJ! I have three socks in various stages of finishing and a half-finished Clapotis on the needles. That's it! Any more WIPs and I get overwhelmed.

Are you sure you dug deep enough? I know I have way more than that and just in socks. I need to go diving to find all of mine and maybe I'll report back on numbers. (and get some projects/stash up on Ravelry.) As it is I'll be glad to be caught up on club kits before the new ones start arriving. Back to Rogue Roses and the gusset of the second sock. Alice

OK, that's a lot of WIPs, but... some of them are halfway there! I'm seeing 2 single socks, those should go fast. And you've already knit a Koolhaas for Snowboarder, so the second one should be pretty quick, right?

As for some of the others... take another look. Frog or finish. Your choice. But I don't think this looks all that bad!

I've got 7 WIPs (not gonna call them UFOs) going at the moment. After all the christmas knitting for other people, some projects started before christmas are now getting picked back up, and I'm also freely indulging in cast-on-itis - it helps greatly knowing that if I don't finish any of them before tomorrow night, all the yardage will count for Stashdown!

Yikes. Christmas knitting really threw off my other WIPs - I think leaving me with 5-ish? Full excavation of the cedar chest would be in order to capture them all! I have big plans for 2009 though - I've gotta shape up, fess up, finish these things so I can start new ones (maybe only one or two at a time this year...).

I have 5 according to Ravelry. :) I thought I wanted to knit sweaters though, and it seems that I really just don't. Socks and shawlettes are good for me.I just received my new Signature Circs in size 5 and they are FAB!

Hi Carrie! I've been looking over my own UFO situation the past week or so, and I have 12. One is a blanket (or will be when it grows up!), but I don't really count that as a UFO, it's more on an ongoing project, perfect for when i have no mental bandwidth for anything else. I should definitely get in on the UFO Smackdown action to tame my 2 sweaters, 3 pairs of socks, 1 hat, 3 bags, 1 shawl and 1 pair of slippers. :) Happy New Year!!

Oh, and I like browncurls' assessment - they're just WIPs, not UFOs...I think they have to pass the 1 year mark of being unfinished before they qualify for true UFO status. If that's the case, then I only have 1, but a few of the others will move into that category if not completed in the next month or so. :)